J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:02:22 -0000 Phil Harris <phil.harris@zope.co.uk> wrote:
In my case there was 'traffic' in the c:\temp dir.
Is there such a notion on Unix?
Unix systems commonly have multiple "temp" directories, /tmp, /usr/tmp, and /var/tmp being the common ones, each with slightly different policies as to when they will be cleared out and their contents deleted.
Last I checked Python's tempfile() used /tmp by default.
Python's tempfile module searches using the following candidates, in order: os.environ[ 'TMP' ] os.environ[ 'TEMP' ] os.environ[ 'TMPDIR' ] "\TEMP" # WinNT only "C:\TEMP" " " macfs.FindFolder( MACFS.kOnSystemDisk # Mac only :) , MACFS.kTemporaryFolderType ) "/usr/tmp" "/tmp" os.getcwd() / os.curdir and uses the first one it can create a file in. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com